title: Relationship of age to impulsivity and decision making: a baseline secondary analysis of a behavioral treatment study in stimulant use disorders.
abstract: Because stimulant use disorders remain prevalent across the lifespan, cognition is an important area of clinical care and research focus among aging adults with stimulant use disorders. This secondary analysis of a National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network study suggests that decision making, verbal learning/memory, executive function, and set shifting are important cognitive domains to screen clinically and treat in aging adults with stimulant use disorders. Some suggestions are made on how clinical treatment providers can practically use these results. An important direction for future research is the development of cognitively remediating treatments for impaired cognitive domains in aging adults with stimulant use disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. kalapatapu.raj.k@gmail.com
authors.forename: Raj K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Kalapatapu
authors.forename: Daniel F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Sophia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vinogradov
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Batki
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Winhusen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D019969:Amphetamine-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants; D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003657:Decision Making; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D054577:National Institute on Drug Abuse (U.S.); D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012193:Reversal Learning; D012718:Set, Psychology; D014481:United States; D014706:Verbal Learning; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants